Posted on 07/02/2005 7:59:14 AM PDT by summer
NEW YORK Adding to the growing intrigue in the Plame case, the grand jury investigating the leak of the covert CIA operative's name subpoenaed has a wide range of White House documents, including records of telephone calls from Air Force One and information relating to an internal working group dealing with Iraq, government sources confirmed to CNN on Friday.
"We are complying fully with the request from the Department of Justice," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters Friday.
Government sources told CNN the federal grand jury was seeking any information about contacts between White House officials and more than two dozen reporters. The grand jury also asked for a transcript of a briefing by former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.
The subpoenaed information regarding telephone calls to and from Air Force One, sources said, covered July 7-12, while the president was on a trip to Africa. The requested transcript was from a briefing during that trip as well.
Newsday reported that two of the subpoenas dealt mostly with requests for information before and after the publication of Robert Novak's fateful July 14 column, which outed Plame.
Many of the documents subpoenaed Friday relate to the White House Iraq Group, a little-known task force. Newsweek reported that the group was created in August 2002.
The Newsweek report cites an earlier Washington Post article that lists senior political adviser Karl Rove, Bush advisers Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Dick Cheney among the group's members.
The grand jury, which met again Friday, has heard from at least four current or former White House officials. Much of its work recently has also reportedly been to pore over many documents relating to the case.
Lawrence O'Donnell--CREEPY LIAR!
Re post #136 - LOL...OK, I will get my act together here! (And fix this keyboard.) :)
Re your post #141 - Thanks for posting that new E&P article, but it just all goes back to my initial and on-going confusion. This investigation sounds like it's really looking for something, in earnest, but I don't know what, and I don't know why. Everyime I think I understand it, all the facts seem to change in some new important way. So, I'm just going to wait and see.
telephone records/calls....geeeeez!....what's up with that?
I thought all this stuff had gone away and the investigation was about to wrap up.
I suppose it was the Supreme Court´s decision that resurrected it all again.
See post #126 for the Huffington blog post mentioned above.
Your guess is as good as mine!
Who knows, perhaps perjury is being investigated.
The leaks did not originate at the WH.
Period.
They didn't lie about it, either. The timeline simply does not support the scenario you describe.
I can well imagine that the anti-Bush rogues who trumped up this whole yellowcake caper mislead investigators, though.
It's not, however you may wish it were.
Somebody lied to an investigator. They don't like that very much.
Those documents were turned over long ago.
When they come up empty that is always a fall back option.
Before you know it, O'Donnell will be out there saying Rove stuffed top secret docs down Bergers pants.
"We are complying fully with the request from the Department of Justice," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters Friday"
Seems that it is ongoing not past tense.
I see in thanking people for their contributions to the thread, you ignored common sense explanations that provide context to the saga as well.
I have pointed out that Rove spoke with reporters after Novak's column and was not the source for the column so his name will indeed appear in Cooper's notes.
The article you link here seems to confirm that despite the lefty twist the players then give that information.
I have to question why you are pushing the O'Donnell/Wilson version. It has been pointed out repeatedly that Wilson originally claimed Rove was out to get him and that was debunked long ago. It is not confusing, as you claim. It is wrong to take demonstrable falsehoods and continue to ponder them as if they are valid puzzle pieces.
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